Too hot to trot? exploring potential links between climate change, physical activity and health
Townsend, Mardie, Mahoney, Mary, Jones, J., Ball, Kylie, Salmon, Jo and Finch, C. 2003, Too hot to trot? exploring potential links between climate change, physical activity and health, Journal of science and medicine in sport, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 260-265, doi: 10.1016/S1440-2440(03)80019-1.
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Too hot to trot? exploring potential links between climate change, physical activity and health
Based on an analysis of existing literature, this paper explores the links between climate change, physical activity and health. It highlights the importance of physical activity for health, explores current understandings of factors influencing participation in sport and physical activity, and develops some hypotheses about the ways in which climate change may impact on the factors influencing physical activity and thereby on the level of participation in physical activity. The paper argues that climate change has the potential to be a barrier to participation in physical activity, particularly in areas where temperatures are already relatively high, and that a reduction in physical activity across the population is likely to have detrimental health impacts. The need for research to clarify the nature and extent of the threat posed to physical activity participation is highlighted, as is the need to take into account the direct and indirect costs of any changes or reductions in physical activity in any assessment of the costs of climate change and/or its mitigation.
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